Summary

In this chapter, you learned about and tried out some of the many tools that a software engineer will use to create software, which will be contained within their development environment. The most common tools you learned about are the operating system, which is where all the software and tools are installed, the browser for information and tasks, and a key tool for web development, the code editor, for editing and running code. We also learned about the software runtime and SDK needed to run and build software on a platform, the command line for computer operation, and source control to maintain versions of software.

You then tried some of these tools yourself with .NET by installing the runtime and SDK, installing a code editor, and making and running a console application in the command line. You then continued working on it in Visual Studio Code. Again, congratulations on your first hands-on step into software development. Now that you have a basic development environment...